Example Sentences

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The Arab lifeguards have taken some long poles from the recreation room and are ladling the Frenchman’s large shirt and trousers carefully out of the seaweed that has tangled in the shallows.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 26, 2010

A little later he sees a group of girls who are ladling water from one well into another, who make the same request.

From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden

Teach you, no doubt, Not to leave poor Jacko out Next time when you are ladling round the glory.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir